New Trends in Young Avestan Studies

Monday 5th February, h. 9:30 - 15:00

PART 1
Mythology and Liturgy in the Avestan Hymnology

9:30 – 9:45 ‒ Antonio Panaino, Andrea Piras Benvenuto / Welcome Address

Chair: Gian Pietro Basello

9:45 – 10:15 ‒ Philippe Swennen (Liège)
Que signifie un triple pressurage?

10:15 – 10:45 ‒ Velizar Sadovski (Wien)
Reconstructing liturgies per disiecta membra: Lexical, phraseological and textological reflections on Vedic and Avestan ritual texts

10:45 – 11:00 ‒ Discussione / Discussion
11:00 – 11:15 ‒ Pausa / Break

11:15 – 11:45 ‒ Eric Pirart (Liège)
Plongées sous-marines. Notes de mythologie avestique

11:45 – 12:15 ‒ Götz König (Bochum)
Zarathushtra and history

12:15 – 12:30 ‒ Discussione / Discussion
12:30 – 15:00 ‒ Pausa pranzo / Lunch time

Chair: Paolo Ognibene

15:00 – 15:30 ‒ Almut Hintze (London)
On Vedic Nivids and Avestan Invocations

15:30 – 16:00 ‒ Andrea Piras (Bologna, Ravenna)
Remarks on Āzi and Āz between Avestan and Manichaean Texts

16:00 – 16:15 ‒ Discussione / Discussion
16:15 – 16:30 ‒ Pausa / Break

PART 2
Textual Criticism: Problems and Methods

Chair: Philippe Swennen

16:30 – 17:00 ‒ Maria Francesca Melloni (Bologna / Ginevra)
Variantes manus-crites nouvelles à l’Avesta- Ausgabe: le cas de Yt. 13.13

17:00 – 17:30 ‒ Stefano Damanins (Bologna)
Some Remarks on Text Criticism Terminology and Methodology: Avestan and Classical Philology at Comparison

17:30 – 17:45 ‒ Discussione / Discussion

Tuesday 6th February, h. 9:30 - 15:00

Chair: Velizar Sadovski

9:30 – 10:00 ‒ Jean Kellens (Paris)
L’Aṣ̌ǝm Vohū entre Gâthâs et Visprad

10:00 – 10:30 ‒ Alberto Cantera (Berlin)
Beyond „Avestan“ manuscripts: the Persian Rewāyats as a source for the edition of the rituals in Avestan language

10:30 – 10:45 ‒ Discussione / Discussion
10:45 – 11:00 ‒ Pausa / Break

11:00 – 11:30 ‒ Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum)
The Place of Future: On the Correspondence between Temporal and Spatial Words in Young Avestan and other Languages

11:30 – 12:00 ‒ Antonio Panaino (Bologna, Ravenna)
Ǝrəxša’s self-sacrifice: Tradition or Innovation?

12:00 – 12:15 ‒ Andrea Gariboldi (Bologna, Ravenna)
On the shooting-hero in Iranian Numismatics

12:15 – 12:45 ‒ Chiara Riminucci (Bonn)
On the etymology and meaning of Av. graṇta- in the Yašts

12:45 – 13:00 ‒ Discussione / Discussion
13:00 – 14:30 ‒ Pausa pranzo / Lunch time

14:30 – 15:30 ‒ Tavola Rotonda / Round Table: Avestan Studies in Europe today: Projects and Perspectives

15:30 – 16:00 ‒ Antonio Panaino, Andrea Piras
Conclusioni e Saluti / Conclusions and Farewell